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Even transfering all thoughts and memory would not recreate you. There are chemicals in your body that affected your recording of memory and your current intrepretation of those memories that would not exist in a clone. Even if the Raelians were to get a 90 second microwave clone of you they will never be able to recreate the chemicals that make you think and act like you do. These variable are based on your hormonal reactions to events that have happened to your in you life and your perceptions of what is going to happen to you based on your experiences recalled through the filter of your current chemical makeup. They can't remake you but they can make someone that looks like you. Kinda like plastic surgery only with implications for human survival that are much more intense. Because, who knows if we're kin or not?

Yeah, in fact even if my whole brain were transplanted into another body, some of my mind would still be left in the old one.

I once had some surgery done in my abdominal region, and I had a spinal tap. This is where they inject novocaine into the base of the spine, shutting off all communication to the legs & other parts down there.

Afterwards, lying there in the recovery room, getting bored out of my wits, I tried desperately to move my feet. I couldn't yet, 'cuz the novocaine hadn't worn off. But it didn't feel like I couldn't move my feet - it felt like I never really had intended to move my feet in the first place!

The lack of feedback from the leg nerves was translated in my mind as "I must not have been serious in the first place". It took a lot of effort to overcome that feeling.

So, on that basis alone I think that transferring (physically or electrically or whatever) just the information in the brain wouldn't recreate the whole "mind". But then, if I was dying, I guess it would have to do.